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Gujarat's political rivals use Sardar Patel as vote magnet, but AAP doesn't
In the same address, he also taunted the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. "Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel made one India by unification of different states ruled by dynasty, whereas one person took the Kashmir issue to a different level." He was referring to Jawaharlal Nehru's stand of UN intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Maharashtra: MVA cries foul as CM Shinde-Fadnavis govt slashes security of 25 Opposition leaders
However, the protection given to NCP President Sharad Pawar, Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray, NCP MP Supriya Sule, NCP MLA Dr. Jitendra Awhad and certain others has not been touched. Those whose security has been removed include three ex-home ministers - State NCP President Jayant Patil, Chhagan Bhujbal and Anil Deshmukh, currently in jail.
The Strongman of India
Sun Tzu, military strategist and writer of the seminal 'Art of War', says that in the midst of chaos, there is an opportunity. The troika of the freedom movement -- Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh -- were more than adept in their understanding of dealing with the British. I guess they followed Tzu's template: he will win who knows to fight and when not to fight. And equally: appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
Bengal BJP trying best to arrange Amit Shah's interaction with WBSSC scam protesters
State BJP sources said that an interaction is possible in two ways -- first, Shah would have to make a short visit to the dais of the protesters in Kolkata, while the second option is that a small delegation of the agitators are taken to a place where the Union Minister is housed.
Reject Bengal govt's fresh loan plea, Suvendu Adhikari urges Sitharaman
Referring to a fresh application for Rs 10,000 crore of market borrowing made by the West Bengal government to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), he said that since the state government has reached its borrowing limit under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, all fresh borrowing applications should be rejected.
Nitish skips MHA's internal security meeting in Delhi
The internal security meeting was held for two days on Thursday and Friday in New Delhi where Chief Ministers and Home Ministers of all the states were invited. Besides Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee, Odhisa's Naveen Patnaik, Tamil Nadu's M.K. Stalin and Jharkhand's Hemant Soren maintained distance from it.
As Maharashtra loses mega-projects, MVA calls Shinde-Fadnavis 'agents' of Gujarat
Continuing to target the ruling alliance of Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena (BSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) continued to target Shinde-Fadnavis for allegedly working in the interests of Gujarat at the cost of Maharashtra.
Azam Khan disqualified as member of UP Assembly
The Speaker announced the decision after receiving the orders of the court which had convicted Azam Khan in a hate speech case and awarded his three years' imprisonment on Thuirsday. The Representation of the People Act says that anyone sentenced to imprisonment of two years or more shall be disqualified "from the date of such conviction" and remain disqualified for another six years after serving time.
It is voters should decide on issue of freebies, Congress tells EC
"The Election Commission has sought, by way of the proposed amendment, to limit campaign promises to only those that are 'possible to be fulfilled'. Again, this is a woolly formulation. Every single party will claim that their promises are enforceable and given that the requirement proposed is to give a 'broad formulation'" for how the promise will be achieved the threshold isn't a difficult one to clear... which again brings us back to the concern that this is a redundant exercise," said the reply made by senior party leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh.
'Bhakti' in politics is road to dictatorship, says Kharge
"Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship", he said in a tweet after visiting the B.R. Ambedkar Memorial here to pay tribute. He also visited the mazaar of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to pay tribute. "A revolutionary freedom fighter and India's First Education Minister, he believed in our country's democratic and secular credentials and strongly opposed the idea of partition on religious lines," he said in another tweet.
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